{"id":5167,"date":"2019-09-19T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourismebrome-missisquoi.ca\/marc-cournoyer-focused-on-glass\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:10:23","slug":"marc-cournoyer-focused-on-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourismebrome-missisquoi.ca\/en\/blogue\/marc-cournoyer-focused-on-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Cournoyer: focused on glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is one of a series on artists who are participating in various<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Christmas markets in Brome-Missisquoi<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I was still standing in the doorway of stained-glass maker Marc Cournoyer and we had already talked about death, King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings, and whatever else\u2026<\/p>\n

Once we were in his living room, we dwelled for some time on philosophical musings. \u00a0\u201cA material that is solid as well as translucent is metaphysical!\u201d Marc declares.<\/p>\n

But all this contemplation doesn\u2019t prevent a person from getting things done, and Marc Cournoyer isn\u2019t just a man of words. Like his father before him, a jack of all trades, Marc is someone who is extraordinarily skilled with his hands, knows his stuff and is a stickler for perfection.<\/p>\n

In his younger days, at one time he thought about becoming an ironworker, but back then, in Montr\u00e9al where he lived, there was no training in the trade. While he worked as a waiter, Marc made medieval-inspired jewelry and started learning how to do welding and glasswork, both of which would later become essentials in his endeavours.<\/p>\n

He developed his skills in stained-glass making through trial and error. By teaching himself, but, in fact, by drawing extensively on the knowledge and patience of Bernard No\u00ebl, a seller of classic art glasswork, who would become his friend.<\/p>\n

Studio Vitriol, the business Marc Cournoyer founded 20 years ago, is currently located in Philipsburg. Marc does glass making, mainly on order, and renovations, in particular.
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At your service<\/h3>\n

 
\nWhen he processes an order, Marc, through his techniques and knowledge \u201ctaps into the desires of his clientele and becomes the fulfiller of their imagination.\u201d\u00a0 Light \u2013 and shadow \u2013 is so important that with stained-glass making you are entering into people\u2019s private world, notes Marc Cournoyer. It\u2019s impactful work that calls for meticulousness, even more so because it is for posterity. \u201cA stained-glass work is made to be beautiful for 100 years,\u201d says Marc.<\/p>\n

He is especially proud of a glasswork he made for a stately home in Montr\u00e9al. It was a celebration of Sicily, the Mediterranean island of which the home owner is a native. In doing this particular glasswork, whose dimensions, positioning and curvatures posed a technical challenge, Marc Cournoyer did some extensive reading about the history of the island, and he made a point of depicting the cultural diversity that is so special in Sicily. \u201cI like finding a history to everything I do, to give it a soul,\u201d he remarks.
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Meticulous<\/h3>\n

 
\nRestoration presents other challenges. You have to find original materials, not just glass, but copper, lead or wood, too, and reproduce their transformation which has occurred by pollution and aging. Marc Cournoyer remembers having to work extremely hard, using glass-stain paint called grisaille \u2013 a shade of grey – \u00a0\u00a0to reproduce the exact colour of the Archangel Gabriel\u2019s foot positioned on the head of a serpent. When he gets his materials \u2013 abstract, wavy or opalescent \u2013 the artisan doesn\u2019t content himself with the code designation for them; he examines every specimen, one by one, from all angles.<\/p>\n

At the Salon des m\u00e9tiers d\u2019art in Saint-Armand, Marc Cournoyer will be displaying small figurines, such as angels and fir trees that can be hung near a light source. He will also have small, abstract-style glass mounted on old wood frames.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a material, glass is hard to beat,\u201d states Marc.<\/p>\n

You can meet Marc Cournoyer and buy his glassworks at the Salon des m\u00e9tiers d\u2019art in Saint-Armand which will be held at the Saint-Armand Community Centre.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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